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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d

This whole obsession with "too many people going to uni" is such a classic example of the parochialism of UK policymaking. No one bothers to ask why the % here is lower than in most other developed countries or whether that might be relevant.

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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 4d

Start writing poetry. Every time she shows you a painting, whip out a sonnet and ask for an appreciation.

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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 5d

I've lived through 3 or 4. Has the feel of a classic bubble. What can we do to ensure, when it collapses, it doesn't hit the wider economy?

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 6d

"I hear again and again that the Israelis – the Jews – had it coming. Knowing allusions to Jewish influence, Jewish power. Stereotypes of Jewish cruelty."

Written before today's attack on a Manchester synagogue. It's the kind of piece I never thought I'd write.

www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

The 7 October attacks changed what it means to be Jewish in Britain

The war in Gaza has exposed a level of anti-Semitism I didn’t realise was there

www.newstatesman.com

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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 15d

If in doubt, remove all adjectives

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UK Defence Journal @ukdefencejournal.org.uk · 17d

Avoiding the Taiwan Strait doesn’t lower risk, it validates Beijing’s claim. Freedom of navigation matters most where it’s contested.

Glenn Plummer I👀U @glenntheplummer.bsky.social · 17d

Just because they can carry out FONOPS doesn’t mean they should. I feel it’s more contrived than navigating in international waters. Western navies can easily sail east of Taiwan, but choose go through the Taiwan Strait with the intention of baiting China and annoying them. I’ve said my piece. Tx.

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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 17d

Reports in the Sunday Times and in The Times on Saturday that the speaker of the House of Commons was “weighing up” initiating a private prosecution of two men who were suspected by MPs of spying for China strike me as bizarre.

rozenberg.substack.com/p/i-spy-stra...

I spy strangers

But that does not mean I can prosecute them

rozenberg.substack.com

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Kenneth Armstrong @profkaarmstrong.bsky.social · 20d

It is 20 years since Conor Gearty gave the Hamlyn Lectures on Can Human Rights Survive?
As a mark of respect following the dreadful news of his, Cambridge University Press & Assessment has made these lectures Open Access for the remainder of the year. You can find them here:
lnkd.in/e5Xrt2G5

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Matthew Palmer @so3brocktree.bsky.social · 20d

My latest report from DSEI, detailing options for a new assault rifle for the British Armed Forces to replace the unloved SA80:

Pop culture references of the day: Rogue Trooper and Molesworth 💪

A new assault rifle for the British Armed Forces?

Grayburn and Beretta's offer

crackingdefence.substack.com

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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 21d

Just had an article rejected because one reviewer was peeved it didn't set out independent and dependent variables. Positivism lives!

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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 23d

Musk is essentially acting as a hate preacher. The government responded robustly to them 2 decades ago. They should do the same again.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23d

Farage is pretending he did not hear what Musk said about *violence*

As many MPs as possible must be clear that Musk called for people to respond to his perception of threat/fear of violence by choosing violence *pre-emptively*. He's telling the crowd political violence/civil war are self-defence

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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 24d

There's a sinister undertone to these drip-fed utterances. It shows a profound lack of understanding of how research operates in UKHE - and the radical and destructive effects reducing research could have on the whole mission of higher education.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ...

UK universities failing on research culture could lose funding

Research England to use REF pause to consider whether institutions must meet baseline performance measures as a condition of receiving funds

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 25d

This guy needs to be arrested...

Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 25d

I'm sure women all over England are feeling really safe now 🙄...
thank you UK media & this pathetic Labour government for truly bringing out the worst in us .

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 25d

"Keir Starmer needs to be assassinated, someone needs to shoot Keir Starmer."

I think this might be incitement to violence rather than Free Speech.

Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 25d

Walking through central London with the kids, bumped into a protest. Rather worrying seeing lots of messages scrawled on the pavement directly threatening Starmer saying 'we know where you live'. Imported US nonsense which is very dangerous.

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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 26d

See also Peter Mandelson and Michael Gove...

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 26d

The reason Charlie Kirk is being lionized by so many journalists is simple: he was very good at cultivating journalists and it seems a lot of journalists don't seem to understand the concept of being cultivated as a pet reporter in exchange for scoops or leads. They think he was their friend.

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Patrick A. Mello @patrickmello.bsky.social · 27d

Social and political phenomena rarely have single-cause explanations. Qualitative Comparative Analysis #QCA offers a structured approach to causal complexity. On Sep 17, @isanet.bsky.social hosts a free virtual introduction to the method of #QCA - sign up here: buff.ly/fMK5s2L

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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 27d

John Bew would be good.

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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · 27d

I talk to the wall like Shirley Valentine...

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 29d

This isn't "just" Shaheds on Poland

It's jamming v/d Leyen and German general's planes

It's bombing the EU HQ in Kyiv

It's bombing Ukr civilians every day and night with 800+ drones and missiles

AND THIS IS JUST LAST WEEK.

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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · Sep 5

Ah, shoot. Just finished King & Conqueror. After all the other historical liberties I was kind of hoping Harold was gonna win but no, the baddies still did.

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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · Sep 3

'a potential Eurasian EU equivalent'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump’s belligerence is pushing Xi, Putin and Kim together – and tearing the old world order apart | Simon Tisdall

The three-way partnership on show in Beijing is united in opposition to US hegemony and a western-dominated financial system, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

www.theguardian.com

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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · Sep 3

Well done! There's an article in The Guardian today saying the SCO is a proto-EU. 🤦

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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · Sep 3

Oh fiddlesticks. If I had one ambition, it was to appear on this one day with Bragg. Eternally jealous of those who have.

Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · Sep 3

Melvyn Bragg has decided to stand down as host of In Our Time, the BBC says.

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Jamie Gaskarth @jamiegaskarth.bsky.social · Sep 3

And just like that, a 100 books on the new authoritarian international order have a cover...

Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee.bsky.social · Sep 3

Just remarkable. Putin and Kim flanking Xi walking into the parade in a highly coordinated entrance ceremony, looking chummy and chit-chatty.

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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · Sep 2

Some thoughts from me on one of the most extraordinary breakdowns in relations between leaders in recent times.

The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · Sep 2

Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi are reportedly not on speaking terms after the president tried to take credit for ending a crisis between India and Pakistan.

Donald Trump was once India’s best friend. How did it all go wrong?

theconversation.com

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